Published on 08/10/2026 – 15:36 GMT+2•Updated 15:38 The European Commission has stepped up pressure on Russia to provide full details of a suspected plague case in Siberia, echoing calls for transparency from the United States and the World Health Organisation (WHO). ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Moscow has pushed back,insisting there is no…

Published on 08/10/2026 – 11:45 GMT+2•Updated 11:58 At least 30 people were killed and 18 were injured after a Russian strike hit two public buses in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, authorities said on Thursday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The strike occurred in the city of Kramatorsk, where public transport has since been…

Washington is investigating whether the European Union’s carbon border tax is harming US trade and whether plans to expand it would create unfair barriers for American companies, according to an official document published on Thursday. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) took effect in January 2026, covering…

The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not represent in any way the editorial position of Euronews. Ukraine is preparing for a fifth difficult winter under hostile fire. But for the cities and communities closest to the front, the greatest danger is not simply…

Published on 08/10/2026 – 8:02 GMT+2•Updated 8:20 On today’s show: EU Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič has arrived in Beijing for a crucial two-day visit seeking to rebalance EU-China trade relations, which have become increasingly lopsided in the past decade. Jorge Liboreiro explains the high stakes of this trip, which comes…

Published on 08/10/2026 – 6:14 GMT+2 Lawmakers in Kosovo elected economist and academic Justina Shiroka Pula as the country’s new president in a marathon late-night session, moments before a constitutional deadline that would have forced a snap election. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The election late on Tuesday was a significant moment in…

Poland has changed dramatically over the past three decades. Once seen as one of Europe’s poorer economies, it is now among the EU’s fastest-growing countries, and its economic weight is increasingly being felt across Europe. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT But is this model sustainable? The country is trying to maintain rapid growth…

As expected Sébastien Lecornu addressed young people in particular in his televised speech, and said the country could not be “indifferent” to the concerns of high school students, acknowledging that the “anger of young people does not come from nowhere”. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT However, he said French security forces do not…

Published on 08/10/2026 – 0:45 GMT+2 A Russian court sentenced a 68-year-old man who swam across the Nemunas River from Kaliningrad to Lithuania in an attempt to seek asylum to six years in prison, according to Lithuanian media Lrytas. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT He was sentenced to six years in a maximum-security…

Maricarmen Abascal, whose resistance to eviction from her flat in Madrid sparked a growing nationwide protest has died. Her plight brought hundreds of thousands onto the streets and ultimately brought forward a general election after mass demonstrations across the country. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The elderly woman, who had lived in her…